Haitian Communist Party

The Haitian Communist Party (PCH(ML)) was a communist political party in Haiti that was founded in 1934 by writer, poet, and ethnologist Jacques Roumain. The party was founded in the same year as the United States' withdrawal from Haiti, and Stenio Vincent's government persecuted the anti-US movements in the country, leading to the party being banned in 1936. Roumain fled to Paris, and the party was dissolved. However, several other communist splintergroups would be formed as the 20th century progressed.